[gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?

[Matt Rickard <frogger@gentoo.org>]

Portage currently does not contain any vanilla prerelease kernels (i.e.
2.4.22_pre7).  Bug 25107 is a request for this, and it seems reasonable
to have these kernels in portage, since we have pretty much every other
kernel branch you could think of in there :)

I'm wondering what's the best way to handle these?  First option is to
put them in vanilla-sources, for example,
vanilla-sources-2.4.22_pre7.ebuild.  If we ~ mask them, people using the
unstable profile will get these prerelease kernels if merging
vanilla-sources.  I'm not sure this is desired behavior, however, it IS
the unstable profile :)  We could also package.mask them here, this
might emphasize the fact that they are not supported.  However, _pre
kernels are generally quite stable, probably more so than many of the
other kernel branches we provide in portage.

Another option is to create a separate category for these, something
like pre-vanilla-sources.  This has the benefit that people who want
vanilla will get only vanilla, and not a prerelease -- regardless of
which profile they are using.

Any comments or suggestions on this?  I'm hoping for some kind of
consensus on where these should be put.

Thanks.

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Matt Rickard
frogger@gentoo.org



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